| 1 | 21.10.1760 | Birthday | Katsushka Hokusai, Japanese painter |
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| 2 | 9.6.1897 | Event | Japan protested when the United States took over Hawaii |
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| 3 | 29.4.1901 | Birthday | Emperor Hirohito of Japan |
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| 4 | 5.9.1905 | Event | The war in Korea and Manchuria, between Japan and Russian, ended |
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| 5 | 23.8.1914 | Event | The Emperor of Japan declared war on Germany |
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| 6 | 1.9.1923 | Event | An earthquake struck Japan, killing 300,000 people in Tokyo and Yokohama |
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| 7 | 26.5.1924 | Event | The United States started limiting immigration, banning all Japanese |
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| 8 | 10.11.1928 | Event | Hirohito was crowned Emperor of Japan, aged 27 |
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| 9 | 28.1.1932 | Event | Japanese forces occupied Shanghai, and then went on to invade the rest of China |
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| 10 | 23.9.1940 | Event | Japanese troops entered Indo China |
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| 11 | 7.12.1941 | Event | Pearl Harbour was attacked without a decleration of war by Japanese aircraft, sinking much of the US fleet |
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| 12 | 8.12.1941 | Event | As a result of the attack on Pearl Harbour, Britain, the United States and Australia declared war on Japan |
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| 13 | 19.1.1942 | Event | Japanese forces invaded Burma during World War 2 |
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| 14 | 15.2.1942 | Event | During World War 2, Singapore surrended to the forces of Japan |
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| 15 | 19.2.1942 | Event | During World War 2 Darwin, Australia, was bombed by the Japanese |
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| 16 | 4.6.1942 | Event | The Japanese suffered heavy losses at Midway Island |
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| 17 | 17.3.1945 | Event | American forces defeated the Japanese at the battle of Iwo Jima |
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| 18 | 6.8.1945 | Event | The first atomic bomb of World War 2 was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima |
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| 19 | 9.8.1945 | Event | The second atomic bomb of World War 2 was dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki |
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| 20 | 14.8.1945 | Event | Japan surrended unconditionally to the allies |
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| 21 | 2.9.1945 | Event | On board the aircraft carrier 'Missouri', in Tokyo Bay, General Douglas MacArthur accepted the Japanese surrender |
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| 22 | 17.6.1946 | Event | A war crime trial, for Emperor Hirohito of Japan, began |
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| 23 | 23.12.1948 | Event | General Tojo & six other Japanese military leaders, were executed after being found guilty of war crimes |
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| 24 | 28.4.1953 | Event | For the first time since its WW2 defeat, Japan was allowed self government |
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| 25 | 11.2.1970 | Event | Japan launched its first satellite into orbit |
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| 26 | 26.12.1972 | Event | US President Harry S. Trueman, the man who authorised the use of nuclear weapons on Japan, died |
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| 27 | 24.10.1976 | Event | British racing driver James Hunt won the Japanese Grand Prix and secured the world championship |
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| 28 | 12.8.1985 | Event | A Japanese jumbo jet crashed near Tokyo, killing almost everyone onboard |
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| 29 | 5.5.1988 | Event | A live broadcast from the top of Mt Everest was made for the first time, by Japanese TV |
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| 30 | 15.6.1991 | Event | Nagano, Japan, was selected as the site of the 1998 Winter Olympics |
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| 31 | 7.1.1995 | Event | An eathquake of magnitude 6.9 hit northern Japan & caused major damage to buidings |
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| 32 | 17.1.1995 | Event | In Japan a massive earthquake caused widespread destruction & left 300,000 homeless |
